Rockland: A third incident involving a person in a van offering a student a ride home has been reported on the Mid Coast. Police said a female high school student was walking home from the University of Maine campus in Rockland when a man in a white van offered to give her a ride.

Rockland: A third incident involving a person in a van offering a student a ride home has been reported on the Mid Coast. Police said a female high school student was walking home from the University of Maine campus in Rockland when a man in a white van offered to give her a ride.

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Rockland: A third incident involving a person in a van offering a student a ride home has been reported on the Mid Coast. Police said a female high school student was walking home from the University of Maine campus in Rockland when a man in a white van offered to give her a ride.

The driver who died in a crash in Biddeford was 18 years old. Police said speed was a factor in the crash that killed Thomas Behen of Biddeford late Thursday night. Their preliminary investigation found that he lost control while rounding a curve and ran into a tree.

Rockland: Three people were injured Thursday night when an explosion ripped a Wharf Street building. The explosion and subsequent fire resulted in one person being flown by a LifeFlight helicopter to an unspecified medical burn center, according to Rockland Fire Chief Chris Whytock.

Westbrook: A woman was killed Tuesday night in a hit-and-run at the intersection of Route 25 and Stroudwater Street, according to police. The 51-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead on scene. - KETV

A firefighter was hospitalized after battling a fire at a Lewiston restaurant on Thursday. Investigators said the fire at Buddy T's on Main Street started in the kitchen, but does not appear to be suspicious

Several dozen law enforcement officers from at least nine agencies across Maine responded to unsubstantiated reports of an officer down Wednesday night. According to Somerset County Sergeant Matthew Wilcox, a person made a call over the statewide scanner claiming to be with a "mentally disturbed person with a gun" on Ohio Hill Road in Fairfield Center. Shortly after, that person reported that an officer was down.

Police in Knox County are investigating a second possible attempted abduction. Regional School Unit 13 officials said Wednesday that a middle school student was riding his bike in Thomaston when a van stopped and an older man asked him to get in the vehicle

The father of a Maine man accused of killing three family members and a caregiver says he doesn't understand how his son could have committed such violence. Orion Krause is charged with killing his mother, grandparents and their caretaker at his grandparents' Massachusetts home last week.

A man was arrested after running from a crash and after deputies found a gun in the woods. Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies responded to a two-car crash Thursday at 5 p.m. at the intersection of Route 25 and Manchester Road in Standish.

Students in Hollis had to evacuate a school bus on its way to school Wednesday morning. Maine State Police officials say there was a strong smell of propane and that was the catalyst for the evacuations. The bus was evacuated at the intersection of Waterboro Road and Plains Road.

Parsonsfield: The window of a van shot by a BB gun or pellet gun in Parsonsfield. Police say there has been damage to several cars and home windows. The York County Sheriff's Office says they have received several calls of broken windows to vehicles and homes that appear to be caused by a BB gun or pellet gun